Unit 5 Emotions and feelings
Dominoes
Warmer
1 Put students in pairs. Give each pair a copy ofthe collocations (Part A ofthe worksheet)
describing emotions and decide whether they are positive or negative emotions.
2 Conduct whole-class feedback
Input
1 Give out the remaining copies of Part A so each student has a copy and explain that this
shows which adverbs collocate with which adjectives, :
2. Ask students to work individually to try to memorise the collocation.
3. After one minute lead a discussion about what memory techniques they used to
remember the collocations.
4 Give the students a further minute to try to memorise the collocations, perhaps using one
Of the other memory techniques that was discussed,
Practice
1 Put students in pairs and give each pair a copy of the sentences (Part B ofthe worksheet),
Explain that they should try to replace the word very or quit in each sentence with a
more interesting adverb. They should do this from memory, recalling the combinations
they looked at inthe input (Part A}
2 Check answers.
‘Answer key
1 bitteriy/deeply 2 highly 8 blissfully 4 intensely 5 (bored) stifioored) out of
mymind 6 mildly 7 mildly 8 deeply 9 deeplyiprofoundly 10 deeply
11 profoundly 12 deeplyiprofoundly 13 insanely 14 madly
Follow-up
1. Give each group of three or four students a copy of the dominoes (you may need to
enlarge these on the photocopier). Ask the students to divide up the dominoes equally
between them.
2. Explain that they must take it in turns to put down a domino that collocates with the word
that tis placed next to
3. The students work as a team. if any player cannot go, the other students must check that
student's dominoes and see ifthey can make any suggestions. Stress that this is a team.
activity,
4 Ifa player really cannot go, the next player takes a turn
5 Allteams work together until they have put down as many of the dominoes as possible.